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Publishing Germaine Greer
As she later told the story, her agent suggested a book (in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the Representation of the People Act of 6 February 1918, when women got the vote) on why...
Publishing Virginia Woolf
VW negotiated with American publishers over the rights to The Voyage Out and Night and Day; George H. Doran of New York became her first American publisher.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
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Publishing Virginia Woolf
The following year, for the first time in her career, she was earning more by her novels than by her essays and reviews. Her earned income grew markedly during this period, and she took much...
Publishing Patricia Highsmith
Doubleday published PH 's novel The Glass Cell, but only after compelling her to do a great deal of painful cutting which left some pages of the former version only three lines long.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003.
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Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990.
124, 130
Publishing Margery Allingham
She based it on a family story of her forebears: an early-nineteenth-century John Allingham who had a second family by Charlotte Duncan, in addition to his legitimate family.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
133
The English publisher was Michael Joseph
Publishing Mary Wesley
MW issued another novel with a lengthy time-span, A Sensible Life, her first to be published with Bantam .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006.
231
Publishing Patricia Highsmith
PH 's crime novel without a murder appeared first as The Story-Teller in New York (for Doubleday 's Crime Club) and later in the UK for Heinemann as A Suspension of Mercy.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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Publishing Ruby M. Ayres
The Uphill Road does not seem to have appeared in England. One might suppose that Ayres chose this manner of publication because of her almost incredible productivity in this year. She continued to issue occasional...
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
She earned considerably less for The Mating of Lydia than for her last novel: £1,200 from Smith, Elder and £2,000 from Doubleday .
Publishing Patricia Highsmith
The first version was rejected by Harper and Row with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters.
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Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990.
128
After writing and publishing an...
Publishing Enid Bagnold
The seeds for this novel were planted ten years earlier, when MGM approached Bagnold to write a film script with a part for a mature actress. A case of writer's block made her turn down...
Publishing Muriel Spark
The prospect of personal revelations in this book aroused great anticipation. A Doubleday editor, no less than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , offered $100,000 for world rights and was disappointed not to get them.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
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On...
Publishing Githa Sowerby
The play was published that year in London by Sidgwick and Jackson , and in New York (where it opened in December the same year with the same cast)
Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North, 2009.
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by George H. Doran ...
Publishing Vita Sackville-West
VSW 's Challenge, a novel based on her love-affair with Violet Trefusis , appeared in New York from George H. Doran ; it remained unpublished in Britain until 1974.
Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. “Foreword”. Challenge, Collins, 1974, pp. 7-11.
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Publishing Natalie Clifford Barney
NCB published a collection of poems in French and English, Poems & poèmes, with Émile-Paul Frères in Paris and George H. Doran in New York.
Barney, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poèmes. Émile-Paul Frères and George H. Doran, 1920.
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